Long-term stress degenerates, but imipramine regenerates, noradrenergic axons in the rat cerebral cortex

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 687-696

  Kitayama, Isao ^a   Yaga, Takatoshi ^a   Kayahara, Tetsuro ^a   Nakano, Katsuma ^a   Murase, Sumio ^a   Otani, Masato ^b   Nomura, Junichi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model of depression; Degeneration; Imipramine; Noradrenegic neuron; Regeneration; Stress

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRONTAL LOBE; IMIPRAMINE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030813325     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00502-1     Document Type: Article

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